News
5 November 2008
Full Steam Ahead for Landmark Summerlee Heritage Park now engineer’s work is completed
Pick Everard engineers have completed mechanical and electrical services work for North Lanarkshire Council on the £10 million redevelopment of Scotland’s museum of industrial life, Summerlee Heritage Park, which re-opened to the public this autumn. This 4 star rated attraction at Coatbridge, just 11 miles from Glasgow and 40 miles from Edinburgh, focuses on the history of iron, steel coal and engineering in the area.
Engineers worked with both North Lanarkshire Council architects and exhibition designers to create an attractive and comfortable venue that encapsulates the important industrial history of the Lanarkshire area.
Funded in the main by North Lanarkshire Council, Scottish Museums Council, European Development Fund and a £4.78m grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund, the project centred on the main exhibition hall which has been completely refurbished to create a modern space that meets the conservation needs of the museum’s collections and improves the visitor experience, in an environmentally sustainable setting.
"We have been working with North Lanarkshire Council for ten years now” said Andy Donaldson, partner at Pick Everard Glasgow, “and we are delighted to have played our part in redeveloping Summerlee for visitors of the future”.
Other work on the 22 acre site has included a new entrance hall, café, shop and toilets; an education suite; the refurbishment of conservation workshops, car parking and landscaping. Now that Summerlee has reopened after two years, museum visitor numbers are expected to reach 150,000 per year.
